Moayed-ol Mamalek Fekri Ershad

Iranian artist, journalist and playwright
The basics

Quick Facts

IntroIranian artist, journalist and playwright
PlacesIran
wasArtist Journalist Writer Playwright
Work fieldArts Film, TV, Stage & Radio Journalism Literature
Gender
Male
Birth1869, Tehran, Iran
Death1916 (aged 47 years)
The details

Biography

Moayed-ol Mamalek Fekri Ershad (Persian: مؤیدالممالک فکری ارشاد‎, 1869-1916) was an Iranian journalist and playwright. He was born in Tehran and studied in Dar ul-Funun. In the time of constitutional movement in Iran he was a supporter of this movement and when the Persian Constitutional Revolution happened, he was 37. In this time he was the editor of Sobhe Sadegh, a political and revolutionary newspaper. He was arrested in 1908 after the coup d'état of Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar. He was also a playwright and wrote several plays in which he criticized politicians of his time.

Some of his plays

  • Old Statesmen, New Statesmen
  • The Story of a Journalist
  • Love in the Old Age
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